On Nov 12, 3:19 pm, Malrassic Park <male...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 00:54:51 -0800, chazwin <chazwy...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >On Nov 9, 11:33 pm, Michael Gordge <mikegor...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> On Nov 10, 4:19 am, Scott H <zinites_p...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> > In response to determinism, Kant explains how the antinomy of free
> >> > will arises from a misuse of reason:
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> >> There's your problem there, you believe that Kant was trying to solve
> >> a problem, when in reality he was creating one from a faulty premise.
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> >> There is matter and each entity of matter has a nature, the nature of
> >> an entity of matter is included in its identity, each entity of
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> >> acts according to its nature, an entity of matter can not act in
> >> contradiction of its nature.
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> >This makes you a Kantian. Kant was died in the wool determinist too.
> >Kant was addressing age old philosophical problems. He was not
> >inventing them, nor was he trying to ignore them as you seem to love
> >to do.
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> Randroids use a number of techniques to evade discussing the issues.
> They blur common philosophical distinctions, for example, the
> distinction between "meaning" and "referent" (see ITOE). They evade
> analyzing issues by dismissing off-hand many of them as "sounding
> like" a "mere variant" on some "evil" Kantian or Platonic theme that
> Rand already dealt with back in the 1960s.
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> Randroids morally denounce ancient philosophers for not having come up
> with 20th-century Randian solutions, which is like denouncing Euclid
> for failing to invent Riemannian geometry. (I realize that's a bad
> example since Rand never came up with any idea as significant as
> Riemannian geometry.) Furthermore, Rand took credit for ideas which
> have been known about for over a thousand years, such as the
> connection between concepts and referents. I believe this one was
> invented by Averroes, but Rand speaks as if she were the originator of
> the idea.
The main trouble with Randroids is that they believe Rand to be a
philosopher when she was nothing of the kind. She was nothing more
than a petulant bourgois novel writer full of undigested ideas and
second hand philosophies which she failed to see the subtleties of.
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